I'm in Florida and have made two pies in three days.

- bake until golden one pie crust and cool
- mix one can sweetned condensed milk (Eagle brand is best, although I've been using a nice organic something) and 1/2 cup fresh key lime juice, pour into pie shell
- cover and refrigerate until set (couple hours)
- whip half a pint of heavy whipping cream with a sprinkle of sugar and a dash of vanilla extract and cover pie

That's it.

I'm going to go have a piece right now!

You don't bake the filling? All the recipes I've seen bake it for, like, 15 minutes.

Pup, I'm sure yours were grown locally, but why oh WHY is it that I can easily get key limes in Florida but can't find them in Portland when they're mostly grown in Mexico?

On preview: no do NOT bake the filling! Most recipes have egg yolk in them, but I hate egg in key lime pie: it invariably makes it taste all iron-y. The only difference about leaving out the egg is that the filling takes longer to set.

Ah, it just occurred to me: maybe it's heating the lime that makes it taste iron-y. Either way, ick.

Cool, thanks.

I got these in the Mission in SF. They don't grow limes around here -- gets too cold in the winter. (Or not cold enough. I don't remember which.)

"I hate egg in key lime pie"

Me too.

I like key lime pie best in a graham cracker crust with meringue on top. But I've never made one, so I have no recipe. I do like coconut cupcakes with lime curd. I do imagine that key lime pie filling is much different from lime curd which takes eggs in most recipes, and sometimes gelatin. (and I like egg in my key lime pie because I find that chilled sweetened condensed milk, no matter what it's flavored with, never tastes like *food*).

I have wanted to try the Ina Garten key lime tart the girl at Smitten Kitchen made, though.

It would be too cold where you are, pup. Citrus doesn't even like northern Florida...

makes it taste all iron-y.

like a trucker cap?

It would be too cold where you are, pup. Citrus doesn't even like northern Florida...

My parents live about an hour to the southeast of mudpuppie and they have a flourishing orange tree in their backyard. I also seem to recall a lot of citrus (oranges and lemons in particular) when I was living in Sacramento - about 15 miles to the east.

Yep -- lots of citrus. However, no limes. Limes, they do not like it here.

Key lime pie?! I'm looking up plane fares now...